I recently downloaded Smiley Central.  Ever since there
are several pop up ads that won't go away.  They prevent
me from using Internet Explorer now.  I can't even get it
to come up.  One of the pop ups was selling a product to

Don't know where to turn so I thought I would try here.
I have up-to-date Norton Antivirus software but some way
it allowed the Trojan.Gema virus in.  It infected the
C:\winnt\system32\pixel32.exe file.  The only way I was

Yesterday I had a virus on my computer.  I think it was a
Trojan.Gema virus.  I downloaded the new virus
definitions from symantec and ran my virus scan and it
removed the virus but now when I log into Windows XP, it

i am new user keep getting hacker alerts and firewall
suggestions what is the best thing to do

ran cwshredder on an xp home machine and now i cant ping by name,
telnet to hosts etc. it's as if no port traffic is allowed. it's
wierd, i can ping addresses by address but not by name. i thought it
was a dns problem till i tried to telnet to the router and it wouldnt

when i go to a secure Internet site. xp give me 25 sec.
before it shutdown. im new to xp, never had these probles
with nt. anyone have a idea

I am trying to create a shared folder on one computer on
the lan that is password protected so that it can be
accessed but only if you know a userid password.
This is the first time I have tried to set this up.  The

If someone wants to password / make private individual
folders
"make private" grey) on XP pro. but the help section
states they cant becuase ".... do not convert drive C to

unable to join xp pro pc to new domain when vpn software
is installed.

FAILED TO SAVE LOCAL POLICY DATABASE

I have XP Pro, and I want to be able to automate doing a
CD backup each night of my data files, so essentially I
need a way to script the file copies to CD and execute the
burn in the middle of the night (assuming I have put a

I get this error (Dial-in page error. Could not prepare
property pages because: etc.) when I try to manage local
accounts on my machine or a remote machine.
After which mmc crashes and logs (Faulting application

I ran microsofts security analyzer and under accounts it
listed a default administrator acct. When I go to the
user account area to examine this accout it is not there.
How do you get rid of it.?

Using welcome screen and fast user switching, is their a
way to get to main administrators account from welcome
screen without log in to an administrators users account
without turning off fast user switching and welcome

I don't know about you all reading this but I for one have
spent the last freaken week doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other
then deleting, reinstalling, downloading, and reading
newsgroup after newsgroup of virus crap and security BS.